Discussion Archive: October 2008

I recently read John Maeda's book 'The Laws of Simplicity' and also visit
his website http://lawsofsimplicity.com/
The Laws of Simplicity is a book written in the same style Don Norman
wrote 'The Design of Future Things'.
Few days back I came across the following linkhttp://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_not_th.html wherein my Guru states
that Simplicity is NOT The answer.
My Guru states that 'I conclude that the entire argument between features
and simplicity is misguided.

Has anyone done a longitudinal study before? What was your incentive
model like?

We're asking participants to commit to 8 sessions, happening roughly two
weeks apart. We are fully prepared for drop-outs but want to minimize
this, obviously.

We'd considered giving people some money for each session (say $50), and
then reserving the same amount of money for the very end, which would be
handed over if they complete all 8 sessions. So they'd get $50 every
session for 8 sessions, and get an extra $400 at the end if they
attended all 8.

Hi all – Lou Rosenfeld of Rosenfeld Media and I are excited to
announce the launch of a new series of webinars on user experience.
The Future Practice webinar series will tackle the cutting edge of
modern UX practice.

I've thought many times on using mouse tracking data to evaluate usability
but I never saw a tool for doing this
as many (or most) of us I don't work only with web so this is can't be used
by folks who are working on desktop applications.
recently I find out a online service that do mouse tracking, replays ( as
many others ), but the real difference is that they
create heat maps and shows the mouse movements path, because watching mouse
movements videos can be really time wasting.